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Verification Ladder + Back-Pressure Hooks — close the deterministic gate on one Cortex or AIOS agent workflow

Audit one agentic workflow inside Cortex or AIOS — a cron-triggered skill, an autonomous pipeline, a sub-agent fan-out — and ship the deterministic verification ladder on it. Tier 1 (mandatory human review where applicable), Tier 2 (back-pressure hooks: typecheck, lint, tests, schema validation on every agent stop), Tier 3 (lightweight 20-50 task eval substrate built from real failures), and a named external truth anchor between steps. The deliverable is a workflow that physically cannot reach production state in a broken configuration.

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